** This ebook was updated 3.1.19 **'The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heists' Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of OathbringerShe thought it was just another job. But her discovery could bring the city to its knees . . .

The city of Tevanne runs on scrivings, industrialised magical inscriptions that make inanimate objects sentient; they power everything, from walls to wheels to weapons. Scrivings have brought enormous progress and enormous wealth - but only to the four merchant Houses who control them. Everyone else is a servant or slave, or they eke a precarious living in the hellhole called the Commons.

There's not much in the way of work for an escaped slave like Sancia Grado, but she has an unnatural talent that makes her one of the best thieves in the city. When she's offered a lucrative job to steal an ancient artefact from a heavily guarded warehouse, Sancia agrees, dreaming of leaving the Commons - but instead, she finds herself the target of a murderous conspiracy. Someone powerful in Tevanne wants the artefact, and Sancia dead - and whoever it is already wields power beyond imagining.

Sancia will need every ally, and every ounce of wits at her disposal, if she is to survive - because if her enemy gets the artefact and unlocks its secrets, thousands will die, and, even worse, it will allow ancient evils back into the world and turn their city into a devastated battleground.

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** This ebook was updated 3.1.19 **'The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heists' Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of OathbringerShe thought it was just another job. But her discovery could bring the city to its knees . . .

The city of Tevanne runs on scrivings, industrialised magical inscriptions that make inanimate objects sentient; they power everything, from walls to wheels to weapons. Scrivings have brought enormous progress and enormous wealth - but only to the four merchant Houses who control them. Everyone else is a servant or slave, or they eke a precarious living in the hellhole called the Commons.

There's not much in the way of work for an escaped slave like Sancia Grado, but she has an unnatural talent that makes her one of the best thieves in the city. When she's offered a lucrative job to steal an ancient artefact from a heavily guarded warehouse, Sancia agrees, dreaming of leaving the Commons - but instead, she finds herself the target of a murderous conspiracy. Someone powerful in Tevanne wants the artefact, and Sancia dead - and whoever it is already wields power beyond imagining.

Sancia will need every ally, and every ounce of wits at her disposal, if she is to survive - because if her enemy gets the artefact and unlocks its secrets, thousands will die, and, even worse, it will allow ancient evils back into the world and turn their city into a devastated battleground.

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1,0 van 5 sterrenTerrible.

3 september 2018 - Gepubliceerd op Amazon.com

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I can't believe this came from the writer of the excellent Divine cities books. The only explanation I can come up with is he wrote this in highschool or something as his first ever big writing project, which probably got an A but of course no one would publish it. Then, later he writes some great books and his publisher said "Write more! Got anything else? We'll publish anything you give us!", so he dusted off an old 3.5 inch floppy disk and converted this from its old Word 95 file and here it is.

Everything is stilted, the text is repetitive and awful. This is paraphrasing, but there was a page which went something like "She rubbed the large magical scar on her head and reflected about the large magical accident which had scared her head . She wished a magical accident hadn't scared her head so largely, it left her with a largely magical scar. On her head. She itched the scar on her large magical head and thought back to the days when she didn't have a magical scar on her head. Back then it was largely magical, the accident had scarred her (physically, on her head). Her scar itched."

About10% in she met a magical item which talks like a modern sarcastic internet person and I stopped reading. Perhaps the rest of the book gets better, but it was causing me pain to read it so I'll never know.

The worst part is I bought this 8 days ago and the refund window is a week.

5,0 van 5 sterrenWith the right commands and arguments you can change the world.

24 augustus 2018 - Gepubliceerd op Amazon.com

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This is a good book.

Think of magic like a computer program. You add instructions and arguments and with those you reform reality. The tighter your arguments the stronger and more varied changes you can make to reality. However, imagine being limited by not knowing all the different programming languages and only being able to use certain commands from those languages you do know. The old ones had the language of the gods but they went to war and destroyed themselves. Now people are trying to relearn the words and commands using artifacts and ruins.

This book is about a thief. She was a former slave and has abilities not generally found amongst the general populace. All the better to help her thieving. She's hired to steal a small box from security at the dock. A small box and not to look in it at all. Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy and it all goes pear shaped rather fast. As with any story where you're not supposed to look, she does, and from there our story explodes.

***I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review***

Oh my word, Robert Jackson Bennett has done it again! With this new endeavour, Foundryside, he graciously allowed us a glimpse of the genius behind the curtain inside his highly unconventional brain. This novel has unbelievably intricate World development, an imaginatively complex magic system and beautifully written characters. It is a high octane, extremely well developed Adult Fantasy that gives us bizarre creations such as people who can Code objects to believe/behave in any manner they so choose.... there are materials that are "scrived" to believe they are bigger, stronger, lighter, faster or just "other" than their true nature. Then there are characters that can alter said devices to make them act however they so choose by questioning and redefining their core directives. There are also weird and wonderful, synapse stretching contraptions aplenty.

The first quarter of the book was captivating. I really felt like I couldn't look away. The middle of the book unfortunately felt a bit sluggish. It mostly seemed bogged down with bland/flat character interactions.

What it had in spades were moral and social injustices abound. Morality and the very nature of Reality were questioned repeatedly and the results were unique and captivating. Other common motifs included: What does it take to do what's right even if it is in direct opposition with our "true" nature? What about in the face of incredible injustice? What does it mean to have Power and what does it do to the person who wields it? Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of our predecessors? What happens when the Powerless are suddenly given some power? Will it corrupt? Will it finally be used to benefit the downtrodden? What does it mean to be free? Can you feel free even if you are hardwired for mindless servitude?... and more...

The ending left me with nearly as many questions as it answered but all in all this was an interesting, gripping and extremely unique read. It is definitely worth the time!!

I got to meet Jackson at a library event in March before Foundryside was fully revealed. When he described the series, I was figuratively bouncing off the walls in excitement. Pre-ordered it the next day. Then I received an ARC.

Holy crap is this story a ride! It's a lot lighter in tone than Divine Cities so it definitely has a different feel despite the main character living in squalor. The setting is like Locke Lamora meets industrial revolution with some Full Metal Alchemist thrown in. Also the dialogue between some of the characters reminds me of Atticus and Oberon in the Iron Druid series. Which kind of ticks all the boxes for me!

The characters are fleshed out and they grow. Each character overcomes a lot and realize they have more to go. The plot takes many a twist and turn and at one point towards the end, I had to take a break from reading, things were so intense.

Overall, Foundryside is light-hearted and fun yet intense. I cannot wait for book 2!